Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) is tended to after being injured during the first quarter of their game against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, October 5, 2017 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minn.(Photo: Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

GREEN BAY – Aaron Rodgers' broken collarbone is making it more affordable for Green Bay Packers fans to go to games they might not want to see.

In the wake of Rodgers' possible season-ending injury during the game in Minnesota on Sunday, secondary-market ticket prices trended downward, although not evenly.

"The big picture is the marquee player in the NFL is not going to play any more this year," said Dennis Garrity of Event USA in Ashwaubenon. "That obviously impacts the value dramatically. It frees up supply."

Prices for the Oct. 22 game against the New Orleans Saints at Lambeau Field fell the most dramatically, based on a survey of secondary market prices of the season's remaining 10 games. The average of the lowest get-in price last week was $245, with lowest prices ranging from $213 to $325. On Tuesday the average was $149 and the range $119 to $187.

Jonathan Gonzalez of VIP Fan Experiences in De Pere was expecting a drop in prices, although the Rodgers' injury might have made it deeper.

"That was always going to happen, just because I think the game was over-inflated to begin with," Gonzalez said. "It seems like a lot of season ticket holders were trying to extract more from that when they were actually planning to go to the game. I think we are seeing a little bit of shock factor mixed with a bit of a natural fall."

Even with a nearly $100 drop in price, the game still demands premium prices, Garrity said.

"It's not like a bargain basement ticket at this point," he said.

The Packers play three of the next four games at home, which is the best circumstance for letting new starting quarterback Brett Hundley settle in. The next game after New Orleans — Detroit at Lambeau on Monday Night Football — has its own set of issues. Most significantly, it is a Gold Package weeknight game.

The Packers have two season-ticket packages. The Green Package includes one preseason and six regular-season games. The Gold Package, which is predominately owned by southern Wisconsin fans, includes one preseason and two regular-season games.

When Gold Package games are on weeknight, with work looming the next day, they can be less attractive to people who have to drive long distances.

The average get-in price for the Detroit game was $111 on Tuesday, down from $141 last week. The low range was $102 to $119.

Following the bye week, the Packers play on Nov. 12 in Chicago, where the get-in average is $161, and has stayed in the $160 to $175 range since the schedule was announced in April. Bears fans, for the moment at least, are buoyed by their new quarterback, first-round draft choice Mitch Trubisky, who led his team to an overtime win against Baltimore in his second career start.

After the Bears, it will be Green Bay's turn against Baltimore, hosting the Ravens at Lambeau Field. Prices for that game are lower than earlier in the year, but not dramatically.

Prices for Chicago and Baltimore could change depending on how well Hundley and Trubisky play during the next couple of games.

This isn't the first time Rodgers was sidelined by an injury. He sat out seven games in 2013, when he broke his other collarbone.

"One difference, the Packers had a musical chairs thing going on at quarterback," Garrity said. "It won't be like we had last time. We are going to sit back and see what happens, both as fans and as a business."

Rodgers' exit isn't affecting all games equally. Other factors can outweigh the absence of even a future Hall of Fame quarterback. Prices for the game at Pittsburgh, for example, are holding firm, in part, because Steelers fans, like Packers fans, are loyal to their team. Like Packers fans, if they don't sell the tickets for a good price, they'll happily go to the game.

"Ticket prices for that game, in decent seats, are very, very high," Gonzalez said. "To get a seat in the lower level, you are still looking at well over $300, and closer to $400. Outside of Dallas, that makes it the most expensive visiting game on the schedule."

Attending that game could be a challenge for Packers fans. It is a Sunday Night Football game on Thanksgiving weekend, and it's during deer hunting season. That said, the Packers and Steelers have a history of important games, including Super Bowl XLV, which Green Bay won, and Gonzalez said he has only a few openings left on a tour package he put together before schedule dates were announced.

"We identified that as a venue Packers fans would want to visit. A fun, lively atmosphere that comes up only every eight years," he said.

At the other end of the scale is the Dec. 10 game in Cleveland, where prices are embarrassingly low; on the verge of buy-one, get-two-free territory. Cleveland is 0-6, following a 1-15 record in 2016 and a 3-13 record in 2015.

"I always anticipated that game was going to be a 'value' game for people looking to travel," Gonzalez said. "It's December in Cleveland and the Browns never projected to be anything approaching average."

Browns fans might have shown more interest, just for the opportunity to see Rodgers play, Garrity said, but that's no longer part of the equation.